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by Word Alive Press
A year or two after the Harry Potter books exploded into the marketplace, you may have noticed that there was a flurry of Harry Potter clones fro...
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by Word Alive Press
This week, I bought a new pen. Most times when people buy pens, it’s just a matter of running down to the nearest Staples and buying a pack of cl...
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by Word Alive Press
My favourite part of writing is the first-drafting stage, when I don’t exactly know where my story is going but I nonetheless get to just go with...
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by Word Alive Press
If you’ve been following the news over the last few weeks, you’re probably aware of the recent controversy swirling around Facebook. Notably, it ...
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by Word Alive Press
Creative types tend to crave peace and quiet. For good reason! Obviously, it’s hard to buckle down and concentrate on writing when your upstairs ...
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by Word Alive Press
There’s nothing quite like a beautifully typeset book, isn’t there? Crisp fonts, beautiful graphics, attention-grabbing chapter titles, attractiv...
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by Word Alive Press
Isn’t it strange the way we wait until January 1 to make resolutions for the new year? I suppose it makes sense to try losing weight after the ho...
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by Word Alive Press
Word Alive Press is in the business of publishing words—many, many words—and these words are used to communicate a huge variety of stories, thou...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most common types of books undertaken by inexperienced authors, or first-time authors, is the memoir. Memoirs are an excellent starti...
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by Word Alive Press
When writers finish their first drafts, they often face one of two kinds of temptation. The first temptation is that they want to immediately sho...
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by Word Alive Press
All writers know that feeling of exhilaration that comes on upon typing the last period at the end of a book. You get to the last page, the last...
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by Word Alive Press
Most writers don’t just want to write, they want to write well. Sometimes this means writing a sentence, then scrubbing it out and starting again...
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